r/hypnosis

If someone told you that you slipped into hypnosis this morning, would you believe them?

You've been in hypnosis before. Probably today.

That moment when you drive somewhere familiar and suddenly you've arrived, but you don't actually remember the drive? That's it.

Or when you're so pulled into a movie that someone calls your name and you don't hear them the first time? Same thing.

Hypnosis isn't sleep. It isn't losing control. Nobody can make you cluck like a chicken against your will (despite what stage shows have taught us). It's simply a state of focused attention, one your mind slips into naturally, several times a day, without any hypnotist in the room.

The difference in a session is just this: instead of that focus happening by accident, it happens on purpose, guided somewhere useful.

That's really all it is.

If you've ever wondered what hypnosis actually is, versus what movies and TV shows have shown you, I'm happy to answer honestly. No mystery, no magic wand. Just how the mind works.

I’m curious if anyone has listened to Paul McKenna’s I Can Make You Rich hypnosis (the one available on YouTube).
If you’ve tried it consistently, did you notice any real changes in your your financial situation? Or did it not make much difference?
I’d love to hear your honest experiences—positive, negative, or neutral.

Ich suche volljährige Frauen, die freiwillig an einer Hypnosesitzung teilnehmen möchten. Wenn du neugierig bist und Hypnose einmal selbst erleben möchtest, freue ich mich über deine Nachricht. Vorkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich. Vor Beginn erkläre ich den Ablauf ausführlich und beantworte alle Fragen. Die Teilnahme ist selbstverständlich freiwillig und kann jederzeit ohne Angabe von Gründen beendet werden. Wenn du offen für neue Erfahrungen bist und Interesse hast, melde dich gerne unverbindlich bei mir. Ich freue mich darauf, von dir zu hören.

Schreib mir wenn es deine Haare betrifft oder mit der Hypnose.

Hi guys so I have been practicing self hypnosis from around 4 years and successfully cured my asthma (18 year old) from it.

But now I want to get hypnotist by other and similarly I can do that for u as well.

For safety at the starting only we will give some trigger to reverse the effect if we want to.

So even some one is new learner they can try on me and I can also try hypnosis on them for their problems.

Hi. I have been doing hypnotherapy since the past couple months and while the practitioner is also excellent, I haven't had great results because I feel I haven't been going into a deeper state as much as I should. Though, I do end up falling asleep then getting back into the waking state but I am not able to access reppresed memories or integrate insights.

Can anyone please help me with this?

I've been watching YT vids trying to hypnotize myself, but I've always been completely conscious through all of them. I do find myself to be relaxed and all, but when they snap or say sleep or whatever, I'm very consciously closing my eyes just trying to get it to work.

I did have one experience where maybe it kinda worked? I was just taking a normal nap after another failed attempt where, I think I dreamt I was being hypnotized and that actually worked? Like I felt the whole "dropping deeper and deeper" thing. I thought I woke up for a second, but I was either still dreaming or sleep walking in a way. I felt like I didn't have a body or anything like other people have described it. I remember half consciously saying to myself "omg, I think it's actually happening". I felt that feeling of euphoria that is often described. I woke up right as I was about to do the whole "snap sleep" thing.

If anyone has any advice on how to get past that barrier, please let me know, because feeling it in the dream really felt like all it was hyped up to be, but of course I can't control my own dreams.

If the hypnotist doesnt tell me to should i leader my eyes open or closed?

Just a reminder to practice monthly self hypnosis. If you're not sure how to do that. Ask a chatbot using voice chat to guide you through it or to do it for you. It doesn't have to be overly long. Just short and self contained to help your mind have a strong enough reactive response to unwanted and unaware suggestions that might pop up at random. Hypnosis chains do exist and are usually created by some sicko who wants to watch the world burn. So it's always helpful to protect yourself, so you don't accidentally find yourself with odd bedfellows, unknowingly.

Take care of yourself.

So my girlfriend after not much convincing agreed to let me try hypnosis on her for reasons I will not disclose here. I’m trained and researched but heavily out of practice and she’s presented a real challenge for me. I’m able to get her in trance somewhat easily but it’s seemingly never been more than a light one. Part of my problem I believe is she’s the type to always be thinking, she’s usually anxious about something and getting her to fully relax can be a challenge. I’ve found inductions involving confusion elements or fixation tend to work better but I’m just looking for any suggestions on more specific ones I might want to try. Thanks!

Have already ruled out any physical issues, I’ve tried to basically everything in the past that nothing has worked, and considering doing this, but it’s so expensive. I don’t want to spend the money if I don’t know if it will work or not… Has anybody had success with this? I feel like hypnotherapy is good for getting somebody to fall asleep but not necessarily to stay asleep.

I have low spectrum phantasia, which is just one step above aphantasia. I can't really visualize things most of the time, and, when I do, it's extremely faded/dull, and only lasts about a second at most. And I can never be sure if I actually did "see" something or not. So, when I have to visualize things, I usually rely on other senses. Which can help with maintaining visuals. But, not by much.

I would really like to train my brain into being better at visualization. I know it's possible for me to visualize deeply, since I have very vivid dreams. And I want to have that in waking life as well. But, I'm not sure where to start. I couldn't find any files that specifically help with visualization. Just files that use visualization for inductions. But they all seemed a little too advanced for me.

Has anyone used hypnosis to help learn visualization? Or know of any files that can help with this?

This could either be a time you did it to someone or someone was doing it to you but I wanna know if anyone else had a moment like myself where you went from wanting to belive it was real to seeing it and knowing it was.

Mine for example was the night I first successfully hypnotized someone. My girlfriend at the time mentioned how she had always wanted to try it and I had some experience in researching it. I had tried on some people in the years prior but was never successful. She agreed and I did the hands being magnetized together induction. I remember thinking it was actually working and going for the sleep trigger. Funnily enough as I did that I heard her begin to say something which I later learned was her trying to say I don’t think this is working.

I remember after the trigger she was slumped over in front of me and I was almost waiting for her to sit up and tell me it didn’t work. To my shock however it didn’t and upon further inspection I realized I had done it. Just wanna know if anyone else shares an experience similar to this and if so what yours was

I find being hipnotized very difficult (maybe is because im italian and the files are in english) i tried many times but all of them didnt work so i wonder if someone could help me answering a question

-is it normal that i dont get influenced by any suggestions

Or just have to do manually what the ipnotist said?

P.s do you have any channel you reccomend for hypnosis?

Hello guysss

I, F18, literally tried some files for the first time yesterday, and it's the first time I approached hypnosis, so forgive me if mine is a stupid question.

Anyway, I tried them and honestly I still don't know if they worked or not because maybe I was overthinking what was about to happen to me. But I tried some more again today, and that's where the problem arises.

After less than two minutes of listening to the first one, I fell asleep, which I don't think I should have, because it wasn't specifically requested in the file. When I wake up, I start it again. And I fall asleep right again.

So I changed file. Same result. So I restart it and try to concentrate.

Spoiler, I fell asleep again.

I change the file for the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth time I fall asleep again immediately after, and exasperated I close everything and go back to doing my things.

What did I do wrong? Why can't I concentrate on those?😭

(I also posted this in another subreddit, but the comments didn't solve much of my doubts)

I've been reading different opinions on this, and I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Traditional hypnotists often claim that hypnosis can never make someone act against their morals or ethical values. However, some modern hypnotists argue that morals and ethics are more like a "surface layer" and that if the critical factor is bypassed, those limits can also be bypassed under certain circumstances.

For example, imagine someone would never intentionally harm their own mother or father. But what if, under hypnosis, they genuinely perceive that person as something else—such as being told, "That's not your mother; it's a dangerous monster that's about to attack you. Stop it before it hurts you." If the person were to react based on that altered perception, would that really count as overriding their morals and ethics, or would it simply be them acting according to what they believe is true in that moment?

Are there any scientific studies or well-documented cases that address this question?

Do you think hypnosis can ever override a person's moral or ethical boundaries? If not, why not? I'm interested in hearing different perspectives, especially if you can support your opinion with research or evidence.

You might want to watch Deception with Keith Barry. In the documentary, there are demonstrations that appear to go far beyond what many hypnotists describe as normal ethical limits. For example, the subject is given the identity of a professional assassin, is led to believe they are carrying out an assassination mission, and in another demonstration is instructed to withdraw their own money from a bank, throw it away, and later has no memory of doing so.

In addition, I'm planning to conduct my own small experiments using only completely harmless suggestions, with the full knowledge and consent of the participants. I have no intention of misusing hypnosis or encouraging unethical behavior. My goal is simply to explore this question in a safe and ethical way, and then make another post discussing what I found.

Hey, idk anything about hypnosis. Just FYI.

But this happened twenty years ago and it’s always bothered me.

It was a cheerleader slumber party and we got the idea to hypnotise one of us. One girl Alex apparently had “experience” doing it.

She got another girl named Molly to lie down, count backwards from five, and got her into a “hypnotic” state (I guess idk). Alex then started asking Molly questions about where she was, who was with her, etc. Molly said something about being in her old house and her sister was there.

Now, none of us believed Molly was actually under hypnosis. There was a lot of giggling and farting. We all assumed Molly was faking it and that she’d break any second.

But she didn’t. She just kept talking with a completely dead look on her face.

And then suddenly she screamed. And wouldn’t stop.

Alex slapped the sht out of her to wake her up. Molly then crawled into the corner of the room and chewed on the end of her thumb while rocking back and forth. She stared off into space, tears streaming down her face, and wouldn’t speak to anyone for twenty minutes.

We didn’t know wtf to do. But we did know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Molly was not faking it. Things got DARK real fast.

Molly eventually shook herself out of it and told us she just wanted to go to bed. So that’s what we did.

And then the slumber party ended the next morning and we all left and never spoke of it again.

And now twenty years later I still think about it. Even with all the life experience I have now, I can’t explain it as anything other than “btch got hypnotised.”

So, any insight here anyone?

As I mentioned before, idk anything about hypnosis. But I’m convinced something happened with Molly. I just don’t know what it was or how to explain it.

so i just had my first qhht session. the first 2-3 hrs or so were spent talking about my life and things of that nature. the past life regression part of it seemed like it was going as it should. i think i have partial aphantasia so it took a little effort to answer the practioner’s questions abt what i saw, but i think i had a pretty good picture about what i was seeing. i saw myself as a blue person, in a village (everyone else was blue as well). i’m assuming water and trees/nature were pretty important in this life. the planet (it definitely wasn’t earth) had a blue ground, and darkish blue trees??, and a long stream of water going down through the trees. when she asked me to move to some important moments one of them was a war with humans? i couldn’t tell what their appearance was bc they were in armor, but i got the vibe that they weren’t supposed to be on that planet. at the end of that scene, i end up in a room and there’s a pedestal with this diamond-like crystal. it didn’t have a definitive color (it was changing colors??) so im not sure what it was but it seemed important for something in my village.

the rest of the regression portion went as it should have. but the part i’m kinda confused abt is the subconscious portion of it. when she asked permission to speak to my higher self, i gave her permission and i felt this pressure on my body. it was like i was being pushed back into my body energetically. it felt like what i would assume to be the ‘shift’ from my conscious to subconscious mind talking. but when she starts asking the questions i had i literally couldn’t answer them. it felt like my normal self was answering the questions. i was aware of what i was saying the entire time, but i was speaking in third person. now idk if that’s bc i’ve researched qhht experiences and saw that the subconscious normally answers in third person so i just started doing it or if it actually was my subconscious speaking. so now im questioning if it was ME (‘pretending’ to be my subconscious) answering or my (actual) subconscious.

i got up like midway thru answering the questions and told her “i feel like im the one answering the questions, not my subconscious” she said it was fine and asked if i wanted to close the hypnosis so i ended up doing that bc i felt like i was just bullshitting answers. so after we finished the hypnosis i told her abt the energetic push/ ‘shift’ i felt, and she said that was a good sign. and that it WAS my subconscious answering but it literally felt like stuff i would say normally. i will say that im pretty self-aware in general, and most of the questions she got to im pretty sure i already knew the answers to, but i just wanted to have confirmation.

for some background information; i’m open to/into past lives, class consciousness, spirituality, manifestation, and stuff like that so i don’t think it was one of those cases where i wasn’t ready to receive the information.

so now im questioning if it even completely worked 😭

I've been thinking about how to understand trance. I've heard we enter trance regularly throughout the day, but in my experience, it might be better said that we're always in trance, but if that's true, that's essentially like saying we're never in trance.

After some brainstorming and paying attention to how I fall asleep, though, I get the sense that there are different "channels" of awareness, and that trance is one of these channels. Right now, I am aware of about four separate channels:

* Experience: This is our senses detecting the outside world. Our sight, hearing, etc. We don't have direct control over this, it's all the environment acting on us.

* Imagination: This is conscious, directed creation of sensations internally. Thinking of a lemon, and all that. It does not result in experiences, as we remain aware that it is internally generated.

* Limbic: This is emotions, how we feel about things. Experiences can lead to emotional ties to things, which leads to imagination that might not be conscious and directed. This is how things we particularly enjoy or worry about can keep cropping up, even if it's not experienced and not directly imagined. This is the first of the more subconscious forms of awareness.

* Trance: This is internal, not conscious, not directed, and not tied to emotion. Maybe it's related to the inherent imperfections in the senses, like visual snow. But it's like how you're in bed, trying to fall asleep, and your mind drift to interact with things and people that aren't there. This is where your dreams come from in sleep, and although it's often completely ignored during wakefulness, it's all still there. Once again, though, these don't appear like experiences. It would only be hallucination if you're having trouble identifying which channel is which.

From what I've read and experienced, hypnosis involves finding a way to blur the boundary between experience and imagination, perhaps through blurring that with trance. Is this what the experience is like for you? Perhaps it sounds like I've been going into too much detail and splitting hairs, but many inductions seem to involve blurring imagination and experience, even though they're distinct.

(I'm approaching this from being interested in learning more about hypnosis, but having no idea what's being attempted, because I've had no success in being a subject.)

I've seen this trick on videos and at the end the hypnotist makes them remember again, but what if they didn't? Would my subconscious protect me and instantly make me remember if the hypnotist just left without reversing it? Because my consent to the suggestion in the first place would be under the assumption that the hypnotist will reverse it before we part ways.

I've been studying hypnosis for about a week, and I started doing actual performances two days ago. I've been practicing magic and illusion for five years, so my analysis and presentation skills are pretty solid. Because of that, I was able to achieve some advanced phenomena during my very first hypnosis performances, including hallucinations, invisibility, and several other high-level effects.

The next day, I was hanging out with four friends. One of them told me he didn't believe in hypnosis at all, but said, "I'll try to believe and I won't resist you." I spent about 10 minutes trying different inductions to bypass his critical factor, but nothing worked.

He said he felt relaxed during the induction, but I couldn't even get basic catalepsy. He even struggled with simple set pieces like the light/heavy hands exercise. I tried the handshake induction, confusion techniques, and several other approaches, but I still couldn't produce even basic catalepsy with him.

How can I bypass or lower someone's critical factor in a case like this? What should you do when you encounter a subject like this?